The Complete Path
His Holiness Ratna Vajra Rinpoche
The 42nd Sakya Trizin
The International Buddhist Academy (IBA) in Kathmandu is launching a global training program that encompasses the Buddhist path in its entirety. This unique course is devised to provide Dharma practitioners of all levels of experience a systematic training focused mainly on the theory and practice of the Vajrayana path as transmitted by the founding masters of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.
His Holiness Ratna Vajra Rinpoche, the elder son of His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trizin and one of the most important lineage holders living today, was requested to teach this program at the International Buddhist Academy, an ideal setting in Kathmandu for this intensive training course. In addition, IBA is establishing partnerships with selected Dharma centers on different continents to offer the first three years of this program to be taught by qualified lamas and guest teachers. Please contact IBA for more details.
Video Introduction of The Complete Path by His Holiness the Sakya Trizin
Detailed program at IBA:
2017
August 1 – August 26
Clarifying the Sage‘s Intent
August 1 – August 5
Introductory course
with Khenpo Ngawang Jorden
August 7 – August 26
Clarifying the Sage‘s Intent
by the Great Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen
This text by Sakya Pandita, one of the founders of the tradition, is a complete presentation of the theory and practice of the Mahayana, covering the topics of Buddha nature, refuge, bodhicitta, the six paramitas, the stages of the path and the qualities of the resultant state of buddhahood.
2018
The Beautiful Ornament of the Three Visions
by Ngorchen Khönchog Lhundrup
September 7 – 29
The Beautiful Ornament of the Three Visions, taught in preparation for the Vajrayana path, is the meditation manual for the sutra path according to the Lamdré cycle of teachings. It covers all the practices from going for refuge and bodhicitta up to the cultivation of calm abiding and special insight, culminating in a description of the qualities of enlightenment manifesting with the perfection of these practices.
2019
Hevajra cause empowerment and preliminaries – teachings and practice
* Tentative dates: August 15 – September 4
Hevajra is the main deity of the Sakya tradition and its practice is the focus of the Lamdré teachings. The practice of the preliminaries or ngöndro (Refuge, Bodhicitta, Vajrasattva, Mandala, and Guru Yoga) is an indispensable foundation for the higher tantric yogas.
NOTICE: Please note that the TCP program is held, as planned, over the course of 7 years. The program for 2020 has been cancelled and postponed for one year due to the pandemic and will take place in 2021.
2021
A General Presentation of the Tantras by Lopön Sönam Tsemo, and the first part of The Tree of Clear Realization
by Jetsün Dragpa Gyaltsen
A General Presentation of the Tantras is one of the principal texts for the study of tantra in the Sakya tradition and was composed by Lopön Sönam Tsemo, one of the tradition’s founding masters. It includes a general presentation of the subject, explanations of the titles of the tantric scriptures and of the manner in which the tantras are taught.
The Tree of Clear Realization is the second key text on tantra studied in the Sakya tradition. Its first part, composed by Lopön Sönam Tsemo, includes a presentation of the refuge and other pratimoksha vows, bodhicitta, the four Indian schools of Buddhist philosophy, and an overview of the four classes of tantra.
2022
The Tree of Clear Realization
by Jetsün Dragpa Gyaltsen
The second part of The Tree of Clear Realization was composed by Jetsün Dragpa Gyaltsen, the younger brother of Sönam Tsemo. This part focuses on the highest yoga tantra, and in particular on the practice of Shri Hevajra. It explains the process of empowerment and the eleven clear realizations (view, creation stage, completion stage, conduct, and immediate cause – to accomplish the supreme siddhi; mantra recitation, torma offering, fire ritual, consecration, and various activities – to accomplish the common siddhis; and the samayas and vows necessary for the accomplishment of both the supreme and the common siddhis), up to the qualities of perfect enlightenment.
2023
The Hevajra Root Tantra
The Hevajra Root Tantra is one of the most important Indian Buddhist scriptures of the Vajrayana. It is one of three tantras on the deity Hevajra and the root of Sakya Lamdré teachings. Due to the profound nature of this text, instructions on it are rarely given, which makes this occasion particularly precious.
2024
Hevajra meditation instructions based on the Lamdré teachings
The heart of the Sakya tradition is the Lamdré cycle of teachings based on the Hevajra Tantra. In this course, His Holiness will teach the uncommon view of khordé yermé, ‘the non-differentiation of samsara and nirvana’, and give detailed practice instructions for the practice of Hevajra, the central tantric deity in the Sakya tradition.
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